Uncovering Treasures: A Story

When she got the call that her estranged father had passed away, she assumed that all he had left her was his vast wealth which she had never really bothered to appreciate because money is not what she wanted from him. As she stepped inside that capacious mansion, she hoped to unearth treasures and half-expected to come out a prosperous woman. As soon as she unbolted that chest, she was flooded with every moment of her life – her broken-toothed reflection beamed at her, her maudlin past ridiculed her, her pointless demands took her right back down memory lane. It turns out that she was right. She did come out a prosperous woman.